During week five, I continued to arrange O’Neal’s civil rights organizations series and I found another interesting document – a memorandum from the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project Staff that was sent to the Mississippi Freedom School Teachers. The memorandum describes an overview and purpose of the Freedom Schools, which was to provide an educational experience for African American students in Mississippi and the South and foster social and political participation in the Civil Rights Movement.
This week, I attended a play, titled Ritual Murder, at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center. The one-act play centers on an investigation of a murder of a young black man by his best friend in a black bar on a Saturday night in New Orleans. Written more than 30 years ago by Tom Dent, the play is still relevant today in the discussion of seemingly senseless murders. (Note: The Amistad Research Center is the repository for the Tom Dent papers).
Next, I plan to attend the Black Resistance in the Age of Revolution Conference. This symposium commemorates the bicentennial of the 1811 Slave Uprising in Territorial Louisiana. I read the book, American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt by Daniel Rasmussen and I am extremely excited to learn more about this subject from other scholars at the symposium. The conference will be held at Tulane University.
Check back next week for a conference update…
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